This report focuses on trends in deaths due to injury and poisoning that occurred over the period 1999–00 to 2011–12.
The age-standardised rate of injury deaths decreased from 55.4 to 47.2 deaths per 100,000 between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and changed little after that. Rates of injury deaths involving transport injury and homicide declined from 1999–00 to 2009–10, while rates for most other external cause groups fluctuated over this period. Rates for suicide deaths declined from 1999–00 until 2004–05 and remained relatively steady thereafter.
Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were generally at least twice as high as rates for non-Indigenous Australians over the period from 2001–02 to 2011–12.

ISSN: 2205-510X (PDF) 1444-3791 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-76054-159-0

Cat. no: INJCAT 188

Pages: 184

Findings from this report:

The 2 main causes of injury deaths in 2011–12 were unintentional falls (35%; 3,903) and suicide (22%, 2,496)

There were 11,192 injury-related deaths in 2011–12, corresponding to a rate of 46 deaths per 100,000 population

Rates of suicide deaths declined between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and remained relatively steady thereafter

Rates of injury deaths declined from 1999–00 to 2009–10 for transport injury and homicide